Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hallmark of Director Capra's style is his way of turning what for an other director would be a commonplace "gag"' into a vital and important incident. In Broadway Bill, he makes a shot of the Higgins family lifting their soup spoons with terrifying regularity show exactly why Dan Brooks abhors their company. He makes a brilliant thumbnail caricature of Dan's amazing friend. Colonel Pettigrew, out of a sequence in which the two meet for lunch after a long separation, each hoping to borrow money from the other and neither having enough cash to pay the check. This ability...
...Harvard squad has now been pared to 16 men, of which but four are Sophomores. No one of these has been regularly on the first string in practice, although Leavitt White, captain of last year's yearling quintet, has been pushing Dan Comfort hard for a berth on the starting five. Bill Gray, six-foot seven inch Freshman center of yesteryear, has the substitute center position to himself, and is expected to see considerable action...
...biggest crowd of the year (80,000) saw Notre Dame's Andy Pilney drop back for a pass from his own 38-yd. line. The ball sailed across the line of scrimmage in a high arc, landed in the arms of Notre Dame's Dan Hanley who was dragged down by two tacklers on Army's 25-yd. line. Two line plays followed and then Pilney dropped back to pass again. This time, Hanley caught the ball just beyond the line of scrimmage, cut to the left, zigzagged 10 yd. to the goalline...
With increasing fear that Yale has taken revenge for the theft of Handsome Dan, II, which occurred last year, the University Band is now making efforts to locate its big drum which has been missing since last Saturday afternoon. The two custodians of the drum are divided in their opinions of its location, one being sure that it must be safe in the South Station, the other, remembering threats by Yale men, feels that a thorough search of the Yale campus might be effective in locating the instrument...
...Dan was not born to be a bargeman. Before the summer is over, he and Molly have parted. Then, as the canal is about to close for the winter, and while an employment agent in Hennessy's Hotel is significantly hiring "canawlers" to work on the Utica & Black River Railway, the young folk meet again. Dan has to toss Jotham Klore into the water before he can persuade Molly to come and live with him on his new farm. Excellent as are the sharp, penny-plain performances by Miss Walker and Mr. Fonda, they do not dim the legitimate debut...